Chapter 192 - 191: Level 4 and Skill Selection

Chapter 192: Chapter 191: Level 4 and Skill Selection

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"I want to level up!"

The moment Gu Su spoke, a dazzling golden light burst from his body without warning, enveloping him completely. At the same time, a DING rang in his ear.

[Congratulations, you have successfully leveled up. Your Level is now 4. Your Life and Magic Power have been fully restored, all negative statuses cleared, and Constitution +1. Please choose one of the following four Skills as a reward.]

’Level up as soon as I have enough Experience.’

This was Gu Su’s immediate thought.

With only a White Quality Golden Finger, Gu Su’s level cap was Level 10.

To break through, he would have to upgrade his Golden Finger to Green Quality.

And to do that, he had to participate in different games.

Suppressing his level and not learning new Skills would be foolish.

What Gu Su had to do now was use this opportunity to level up as quickly as possible.

Learn important starting Skills and Public Skills.

Only then could Gu Su quickly build up his combat power, instead of lacking even the ability to go out and fight for his life.

Among the four Skills that appeared this time, two were starting Skills for the Undead Series branch paths, and two were randomly generated Public Skills.

[Poisonous Qi: Active Skill, upgradeable. Consumes 1 Mana to launch a cloud of poisonous gas that can poison a target.]

[Undead Enslavement: Passive Skill, upgradeable. When your subordinate Undead fall in battle, there is a 20% chance they will immediately resurrect on the battlefield and continue to fight.]

[Defense Science: Passive Skill, upgradeable. Reduces the damage you and your subordinates take in melee combat.]

[Elemental Magic: Passive Skill, upgradeable. Allows you to learn Magic from the Elemental Series. Initially, you can choose one of the four elements—Earth, Water, Wind, or Fire—to study.]

He glanced over the four available Skills. Poisonous Qi had appeared before; it was an old acquaintance.

However, the fact that Gu Su hadn’t chosen that path back then already said something.

Although many of Gu Su’s current subordinates used poison, and he even had the Dark Erosion Cave specifically for producing toxins...

...Gu Su himself had no particular talent for using poison.

The other three, however, were all quite tempting to Gu Su.

Undead Enslavement was the starting point for the final branch of the Undead path.

Compared to the other paths, this one was quite straightforward, but it was a must-pick for certain Undead Mages.

This path had only one goal: Undead Enslavement, all the way to the ultimate Eternal Slavery.

The philosophy of this path was singular: battlefield resurrection and post-battle resurrection.

In short, it was impossible for Gu Su’s subordinates to truly die in battle. Even if they were killed, they would be dragged back to fight for Gu Su once more.

Of course, a 100% resurrection rate was impossible. After all, what would be the difference between that and being completely immortal?

This was a Game World, true, but even a Game World had to follow basic rules.

If an Undead Mage’s Eternal Slavery really could make fallen Undead rise up and fight again immediately, with no loss to the Undead Mage and even a 100% resurrection rate...

...then the first class to be purged from the game would absolutely be the Undead Mage.

The other classes wouldn’t tolerate a bug like that existing, either inside the game or out.

Therefore, the strongest version of Eternal Slavery had a 45% in-combat resurrection chance, or a 55% post-combat resurrection chance.

In other words, with this, Gu Su could really send his subordinates to fight head-on without holding back.

After all, after dying, they had an almost 50% chance of getting back up to fight again.

Die again, get up again.

By that calculation, if a hundred Undead were wiped out, forty to fifty would rise again. If they were wiped out a second time, over twenty would rise again. A third time...

It could be said that this skill was the core ability for an Undead Mage following the Undead Calamity path.

Regardless of any other variables this skill might have later on, this path was currently the one Gu Su coveted most.

As for the other two, Defense Science and Elemental Magic...

Both of these were Public Skills.

Defense Science increased the Defense Power of Gu Su himself and his subordinate troops.

If Gu Su were a Death Knight, he would choose this.

But Gu Su was an Undead Mage, and one who had obtained an Earth Type Golden Finger at that.

Strengthening his subordinates’ Defense Power was fine, but strengthening his own didn’t mean much to Gu Su.

After all, Gu Su had no intention of engaging in melee combat.

At the very least, he had no talent for it.

This fact had been all but officially confirmed during his time at vocational college.

If Gu Su truly had a talent for melee, he would have become a Death Knight long ago, not an Undead Mage.

So even if the Defense Technique path later offered survival abilities like increased evasion, Constitution, Life, and Magic Resistance...

...it wasn’t important to Gu Su.

After all, Gu Su’s growth strategy was more or less set in stone.

Gu Su couldn’t possibly change his chosen direction now.

The Elemental Magic, on the other hand, made Gu Su feel it was a pity to pass up.

This was something all Magic Series classes wanted.

Because it was the foundation of all Magic Series spells.

Elemental attack spells—the various kinds of Earth, Water, Wind, and Fire Magic—made up half of all the Magic in the game.

If a Mage didn’t learn Elemental Magic, their combat effectiveness would be cut in half.

Although some Mages claimed they wanted to specialize in a certain path...

...that was all just talk.

You just had to ask them: if they came across Elemental Magic, would they learn it or not?

Now, Gu Su was stuck.

He had to choose between Undead Enslavement and Elemental Magic.

The other would have to wait for the next opportunity.

Faced with this choice, Gu Su fell silent for a long time.

So long that the Skeletons outside had already finished dealing with all the corpses on the ground.

So long that his subordinate ranks had been fully restored to their designated numbers before he slowly raised his head.

"I choose Undead Enslavement!"

In the end, Gu Su immediately chose the option that was most optimal for him.

After all, he had to build up his core path first.

Besides, Elemental Magic was just a Public Skill.

There would be other path choices later on.

If Gu Su chose Elemental Magic, he was afraid his future path choices would become chaotic.

Gu Su’s ideal situation was to complete the core paths of an Undead Mage by around Level 7 or 8.

He could then try for Elemental Magic in the last two levels.

Moreover, for Magic Series classes, the appearance rate of Elemental Magic was 35%.

That was already considered a fairly high chance of appearing.

As a Magic Series practitioner, Gu Su would still have a chance to roll this Public Skill later.

So, Gu Su was clear on what his priority was.

After Gu Su made his choice, he felt a faint yet firm connection form between himself and his subordinate Undead.

Although the feeling lasted for only an instant...

...Gu Su knew he had taken another step forward on his path.